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She also posted home video, taken by her dad, showing her as a young girl trying to run away from home.

“Video from the farm when I was running away in the cornfield and my dad was taunting me because I wanted him to come with me,” she wrote. “We lost the farm when we lost everything else. But today I got to buy it back for him.” She did not disclose the location of the farm.

Schumer was born on the Upper East Side of Manhattan to Sandra and Gordon Schumer, who owned a baby-furniture company. The family was well-off until the company failed when she was 9. Her father was diagnosed with MS three years later. Her parents later divorced.

Schumer, who promotes awareness of and raises money for MS, has spoken publicly about her father’s illness.

According to People she drew on the experience for her work in “Trainwreck,” in which her on-screen father, played by Colin Quinn, has MS like her real-life father. Schumer arranged for the two men to meet earlier this year.